Tongue-support



(No Model.) 9 J. M. HAAS.

TONGUE SUPPORT.

No. 329,899. Patented Nov. 10, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MILO HAAS, OF WABASH, INDIANA.

TONGUE-SUPPORT.

EBPECIFICATIOlil' forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,899, dated November 10, 1885.

Application filed April 27, 1885. Serial No. 168,601. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES M. HAAS, a citizen of the United States, residing in Wabash, in the county of WVabash, in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements upon Tongue and Thill Supports, of which the following specification is sufficient in law.

Myinvention relates to Letters Patent issued to me June 5, 1883, No. 278,938.

In that invention, as a part of my device to provide safe and durable support for shafts of vehicles, in order that the thills or shafts may be turned up into a vertical position when not in use, or from fallingto the ground or against the animals heels if either end of the thills becomes detached from the vehicle, I use a rectangular open bracket, which is bolted onto the shaft-coupling to hold a curved flat spring secured to the shaft, and which rests against the inner face of the cross-bar on the bracket.

In the present case I still use the bracket and spring. The bracket is fastened to the shackle underneath the axle by having the bolts of the shackle run through it acting as a clip-tie, being held in place by the taps which hold the ordinary shackle-tie, or other means by which the shackle is held in place. The bracket and spring operate as in the Letters Patent referred to; but this invention consists in an adjustable bent metal spring, which is substituted for the flat spring used heretofore.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the spring in use or the shafts in a raised position; Fig. 2, the spring detached, and Fig. 3 the shafts in a natural position.

The several parts are indicated as follows: A is the axle; B, shaft; 0, rectangular bracket; D, adjustable bent metal spring.

The spring is an irregular-shaped spring, made of metal, of requisite strength, and it may be bent double in a former to assume the position shown. It is bent irregularly at a, and has several places to inclose the bolt 1), which holds it to the shaft, and it can be adjusted readily by loosening the tightening-nut 0. Its open ends swell out at d d a little more than the width of the bracket. In raising the shaft the spring is drawn upward through the bracket, and when the swell portion has been drawn through the spring expands and rests upon the upper side of the bracket.

I claim In combination with the shafts B and the open bracket 0, the adj ustable irregular-shaped spring D, operating within the bracket, the open ends d of the spring expanding and bearing against the bracket when the shafts are raised, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES MILO HAAS.

\Vitnesses:

GEORGE T. HERRIOK, GEo. W. BLAIR. 

